my history with pokemon

to celebrate the franchises 30th aniversry i thought id give you a bit of my history with the franchise. i discovered the anime in 2002 when i saw my brother watching the vhs tapes of season 1s episode “attack of the prehistoric pokemon” which was the first anime episode i ever watched i got hooked almost immediately into the series the first season i saw on tv was season 3 which was airing on channel 10 at the time here in australia but for most of the 2000s i watched the episodes on cartoon network on austar which fell behind in episodes by the early 2010s so switched back to watching it on eleveen (10s subsiduary) and later 9go (although got a bit behind in recent series when it aired only really watching horizons lately when they air and then 9go stopped iaring it last year) still watch episodes sometimes on abc (which now has the rights somehow) i also when visiting relatives in italy watched some of the seasons that were airing overthere in 2009 and 2011. my favourite pokemon has always been chikorita the cute johto grass starter. the first movie i watched and still my favourite is spell of the unknown (the third one). i got into the games by accident when flying on singapore airlines they had pokemon gold and yellow on the entertaiment system in 2005 (as well as silver) a couple of months later got my first game boy advance and the first game i owned was saphire. i have owned almost all the main games from the game boy era through to the 3ds era and some of the switch games as well as most mystery dunegon and all the ranger games. gold and its remake heartogld are probably my favourites. pokemon is a big part of why i am an otaku and massive anime fan to another great 30 years for my favourite franchise.